Immigration lawyer Gabriela Ramo says that under Canadian law, someone’s citizenship can only be revoked if it can be proven that they committed fraud or misrepresentation to obtain it.

“Before they could move to do this, they would need to introduce legislation, there would have to be amendments to the current Citizenship Act,” said Ramo, former chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s immigration section. “There’s no provision that would allow them to pursue revocation of citizenship of a Canadian birth, by virtue of his birth to a Canadian mother.”

The annual equity cheques aren’t too shabby, either.

They also created a website that told the guy he was eligible, no caveats.

Whereas stripping him of his citizenship would accomplish nothing at all.

The petition is purely symbolic

I don’t think people have really thought through what is symbolic of.

“We don’t have time to put people on trial” is not a take I’m prepared to get behind.

And even if it were…how would revoking his citizenship change any of what you just described?

I’m pretty sure the portion of the Act that site refers to was repealed in 2017.

Canadian citizens who (are alleged to) have committed treason should be tried under to Canadian law, and there’s no reason to invent loopholes to avoid having to put someone on trial.

It’ll be interesting to see if they start licensing Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks to other streamers in the future.

I assume Prodigy will belong exclusively to Netflix for the foreseeable future.

Maybe illegally revoking the citizenship of people we don’t like is a bad thing?

The sort of thing they want to do?

Things have changed so much since 2005, it’s incredibly difficult to create a bona fide cultural phenomenon. And even if you can, sustaining it is a whole 'nother ball game.

I guess I don’t really know what level of popularity is realistic…or even desirable.

The most recent season seemed perfectly average to me.

Pretty much. There’s a strong argument that “eliminating barriers” may be synonymous with “deregulation,” which…could go badly.

This was a decent explainer. In a nutshell…

• There are four categories of trade barriers in Canada: natural barriers such as geography, prohibitive barriers such as restrictions on the sale of alcohol, technical barriers such as vehicle weight standards and regulatory barriers such as licensing and paperwork requirements.

• The 2017 CFTA was intended to cut down on some of these barriers, but all provinces and territories negotiated exemptions for various reasons, ranging from different safety regulations across provinces, to different language requirements, to industry protectionism.

It’s not clear right now which barriers the feds can unilaterally eliminate (and whether we agree with all of them), but I guess we’ll find out within the next week or so.

The Roddenberry Archive is probably the best place - navigate to the section called “765874”.

They just link to YouTube videos, but I find the actual YouTube channel challenging to find stuff in.

I don’t know if I agree with that assessment, but they do seem to have one writer who does nothing but write about how bad Carney is, and another who does nothing but write about how bad Freeland is.

From what I can tell, he would have to have acquired the citizenship fraudulently, and he didn’t.

There used to be a mechanism for the citizenship of people convicted of treason, spying, and terrorism offences to be revoked, but it was repealed in 2018.

I would like to think the rule of law still applies here.

That seems like a weird whatabout. How is your job related to how much funding the CBC gets?

In the end, funding the Ukraine-Russia war instead of promoting the peaceful settlement that was being negotiated between Ukraine and Russia in April 2022 has been a disaster for Ukraine and for Europe.

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Yeah, never is things seem critical. Mind you, it is Patch Thursday, so maybe things will settle down.

The Fediverse is about to get a lot weirder…

In Western Canada, I know there are Co-op Gold-branded filters. I don’t have any at the moment, so I can’t confirm where they’re made, exactly.